Prior to joining Reed Smith, Germar worked at other leading international law firms in the field of private equity, M&A, and corporate law, and as an assistant professor at the Max Planck Institute and the University of Munich. During his legal clerkship, he trained in Cologne and New York. He regularly publishes articles on matters of corporate and civil law, including in legal reference books and commentaries (e.g., Beck’sches Formularbuch GmbH-Recht).